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Building A Community Learning Laboratory Through Digital Initiatives, Sonia Chaidez, Stephanie Carmona
Building A Community Learning Laboratory Through Digital Initiatives, Sonia Chaidez, Stephanie Carmona
Digital Initiatives Symposium
How can digital initiatives help to build a community of life-long learners? It begins with creative collaboration. We developed a partnership between the College Library and the Education Department to launch a learning laboratory that partners adult learners from our neighboring community with our undergraduate students to create authentic learning experiences centered on building digital literacy skills. From photo archives to digital storytelling to creating digital maps- this partnership is helping to build and contribute to digital platforms for the populations that will use them to continue the cycle of life-long teaching and learning. This process also helps to give …
An Intergenerational Drama Program Utilizing Community Based Learning, Bennett Harrell
An Intergenerational Drama Program Utilizing Community Based Learning, Bennett Harrell
National Youth Advocacy and Resilience Conference
Participants in this workshop will engage in ensemble building drama activities. These activities will lead to the creation of multiple pieces of drama. The participants will also develop a list of interview questions they can use if they choose to implement the project at their schools or organizations. Many of the activities are from Augusto Boal’s “Theatre of the Oppressed,” a genre of theatre born out of the necessities of people who experience oppression. It provides them tools to explore the oppression and ways to face it in the real world.
Target audience: Teachers at all levels; Principals and Assistant …